RED BANK: RIVERVIEW DROPS MASK MANDATE
Reversing a policy revived a month ago, Red Bank’s Riverview Medical Center has dropped a mandate for mask-wearing to impede the spread of COVID-19, according to a published report.
RED BANK: RIVERVIEW REMANDATES MASKS
Red Bank’s Riverview Medical Center has revived its pandemic-era mask mandate for all staff and visitors “due to an increase in COVID-19 prevalence,” its owner announced Wednesday.
RED BANK: RALLY DEMANDS VAX/MASK CHOICE
Marchers gathered on the sidewalk outside Riverview Medical Center Monday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
About 150 proponents of “choice” regarding COVID-19 vaccines and masks protested outside Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank early Monday afternoon.
The midday protest followed a rally in Riverside Gardens Park, where god, the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment were also invoked.
RED BANK: FAMILY ‘DODGED BULLET’ OF VIRUS
The Lauterwassers and Craigs outside their Red Bank home Friday morning. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
If the official figure is accurate, one household accounts for about 6 percent of Red Bank’s 87 COVID-19 cases.
The good news: all four adults in the East Westside Avenue house are now healthy and anxious to go back to work, having “dodged a bullet,” and the lone child there quickly rebounded, they told redbankgreen Friday.
RBR: FRIDAY GAME OFF DUE TO HOLMDEL VIRUS
Red Bank Regional’s week-three football game at home against Holmdel, scheduled for Friday, was postponed Wednesday due to an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease among Holmdel players, Shore Sports Zone reports.